Portable cigarette-machine



(No Model.)

' P. P. PRATT.

Portable Cigarette Machine,

PatentedApriI-IQ, 1-881.

UNITED STATES ATENT FFICE.

PARLEY P. PRATT, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO.

PORTABLE CIGARETTE-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 240,336, dated April 19, 1881. Application filed February 1, 1881. (No model.)

'exact description.

My invention relates to a portable means of rolling and filling cigarette-papers, the device consisting of a stem or mandrel upon which to roll the wrapper into tubular form, and which afterward serves as a rammer for the com pression of the tobacco; an outer casing to sustain the wrapper while being filled, and a tubular mouth-piece serving to clamp the end of the wrapper in the mouth of the casing, to keep the wrapper open and to permit the supplying of tobacco thereto.

The invention also consists in forming the sleeve with a beveled end, whereby it is adapted to take up the tobacco readily, in providing the mandrel with a pen-socket, and in the,

method of forming a cigarette with the aforesaid device.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents my improved device in shape for carrying in the pocket; Fig. 2, a similar view, but with the outer cylinder and sleeve in section; Fig. 3, a view of the outer cylinder and the sleeve, as in Fig. l, with the central stem or mandrel withdrawn Fig. 4, the central stem or mandrel; Fig. 5 a view illustrating the manner of formin g the wrapper into a tube; and Fig. 6, a longitudinal central section of the outer cylinder, sleeve, and wrapper, showing the manner of filling the cigarette and compressing the tobacco.

The object of this invention is to provide a cheap and convenient device for forming cigarettes which may be carried in the pocket, and which may, if desirable, be adapted to serve as a pen-holder or pencil. To this end I construct the device in the manner represented in the drawings, in which A represents an outer tubular casing or cylinder; B, a short tubular sleeve fitting the mouth of said casing or cylinder, and O a central mandrel or stem of cylindrical form, said parts being adapted to fit successively one within another, as represented in Figs. 1 and 2, virjhereby the device is rendered very compac When a cigarette is to be formed, the central stem or mandrel, G, and the sleeve B are withdrawn from the outer cylinder or casing, the sleeve being allowed to remain upon the stem or mandrel, as indicated in Fig. 5. A wrapper, D, is then applied to the stem or mandrel, the edge of one of its ends lapping over or lying upon the end of the sleeve, and is rolled into the form of a tube or cylinder. When thus rolled into tubular form the wrapper may be moistened along its edge to cause such edge to adhere to the body, after which the wrapper still upon the mandrel is introduced into the outer cylinder or casing until its outer end is clasped or clamped firmly between the inner' wall of the cylinder or casing and the outer face of the sleeve, as shown in Fig. 6, and the mandrel is then withdrawn.

As indicated more clearlyin Fig. 3, the end of the sleeve B is out 01f at an angle, thus adapting it to scoop up the tobacco with which the wrapper is to be filled. The wrapper having been rolled into shape and clasped or secured within the outer cylinder, as above described, the tobacco is taken up by the beveled end of the sleeve and allowed to fall into the wrapper within the casin g or cylinder, and when a proper quantity has been thus collected the stem or mandrel O is inserted through the sleeve, as shown in Fig. 6, and the tobacco properly compressed thereby, this operation being repeated as often as necessary. when the wrapper is properly filled and the tobacco rendered sufficiently compact the stem or mandrel and the sleeve are withdrawn, and the completed cigarette removed fromthe casing or cylinder, ready for use.

In order to render the implement further useful and convenient, the central stem or mandrel, 0, may be provided with a pen-socket, E, and thus adapted for use as a pen-holder, or it may be furnished with a pencil. In this way the device, while occupying but little or no more space than an ordinary pocket pencase or pencil, may be made to possess the usefulness of the same, together with that of a cigarette-former.

Having described my invention, I claim-- 1. A portable device for forming cigarettes consisting of a mandrel upon which to roll the wrapper, a casing to support the wrapper while being filled, and a tubular mouth-piece or sleeve to clamp the wrapper in the mouth of the casin g and permit insertion of tobacco.

2. The tubular mouth-piece B, adapted, in connection with the mandrel, to support the wrapper while the latter is being rolled into cylindrical form, and having its end beveled to facilitate taking up tobacco.

3. In combination with a tubular casing to sustain a cigarette-wrapper, a tubular mouthpiece having a scoop-shaped end to take up tobacco and deliver it into the wrapper.

4. A portable pocket implement consisting of a casing to sustain acigarette-wrapper and a stem or mandrel adapted both to compress the tobacco within said casing and to receive PARLEY P. PRATT.

Witnesses:

THEO. H. BECK, JNo. J. JoYoE. 

